Foundations of a Grant Lifecycle Badge
To lead research, you will need to fund your ideas. Grant writing is an essential skill necessary to secure financial support across professions and academic projects.
Whether you are a graduate student, a postdoctoral scholar, or a tenure-track faculty member, securing funding requires a skill set necessary to support your work. While anyone can apply for a grant, even the best researchers need guidance to create compelling and competitive proposals.
Grant writers are also needed in nonprofit, governmental, and educational entities to secure funding via private or governmental grants.
The Graduate College’s research- and expert-informed content will help you learn about researching funding opportunities, assessing fit, crafting winning proposals, and managing awarded grants.
The Foundations of a Grant Lifecycle Badge will cover the following topics:
- Introduction to Office of Sponsored Programs and types of funding sources
- Finding, evaluating, and identifying grant funding sources
- Major phases in the grant process
- How to build a grant team: roles, responsibilities, strategies
- Proposal planning
- Proposal writing
- Supplemental documentation
- Proposal submission guidelines
- Proposal review
- Grant management
The Foundations of a Grant Lifecycle Badge is a Medallion-qualifying program for UNLV graduate and professional students. For additional information, please see the Graduate College Medallion Program webpage.
Any UNLV graduate or professional student who is enrolled and in good academic standing in a graduate degree program may apply, including students in their first semester.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis prior to the fall 2024 semester. Course content will be available beginning in fall 2024. Once available, the Foundations of a Grant Lifecycle Badge application will be found in the Grad Rebel Gateway. There is no application fee. Students whose applications are accepted will have until their graduation date to complete the program.
To earn a Foundations of a Grant Lifecycle Badge, students must complete all requirements of each module. The requirements of each section are listed under “Overview and Requirements” in the Canvas modules.
Graduate badges are digital micro-credentials that signify an individual’s accomplishment, expertise, or level of proficiency in a given topic area. The institution that issues badges decides how digital badges are earned. Badges are earned for completing seminars, professional development, training, and volunteering. Because a badge is simply an image, the value of the badge comes from the data stored inside the image, the metadata. The metadata explain what the badge represents, how and when it was earned, what reputable institution issued it, and if/when the badge expires. These metadata are viewed by clicking on the badge. All of a person’s badges and their metadata are stored in a digital backpack for easy access. Watch an eight-minute guide to sharing digital badges from your backpack to learn more.
The Graduate College has partnered with a leading platform called Canvas Credentials to award digital badges to students who complete select The Grad Academy programming.
Please note that digital badges do not appear on official UNLV transcripts or diplomas. However, the digital badges are valuable because they allow you to translate your experiences and soft skills not captured in those official academic documents. We recommend that you display your digital badges where they will be seen often, such as your email signature or LinkedIn account. If you have a personal webpage, you can embed your badges directly into the webpage. When applying for a job, consider adding your badges to your digital resume or portfolio.
The Graduate College will be hosting Tuesday Talks: Your Questions Answered for current The Grad Academy program participants. Please drop by on any of the following Tuesdays to ask any questions you might have or just to check your progress: